The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-07-05

But when all this is said and sung, are we
content to rest our claim for our country's
greatness upon these things! To our gazing
eyes, as we look over the sea, is there not
some other eminence rising from the watery
plain and piercing still farther the azure dome
on whose brow the mornings beam shall
earlier kindle the day, and the twilight later
linger Our armies are dispersed, and cur
ships are decayed. But is our glory dimmed?
Does the heart less joyously hail this auspi-
review, and revival of memories of the past!
1t Is not easy, perhaps, to express IN sin
gle word that something which Is the funda-
mental principle of the government of the
United States and which is at once the
security for its internal prosperity, its ex-
ternal safety and the source of its true glory.
1t springs from innate intelligence, quick
ened by education and exalted by religion.
1t inspired the practical declaration that all
men are by nature endowed with certain IL
alienable rights, among which mot all of
which, are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. and to secure aud protect these,
governments are instituted. Solomon stroYe
TO put the idea into an eplgramatic parallel
ism, when he said lighthouses eIalteth
nation, but sin is reproach TO any people
righteousness meaning neither pietY, nor
dogma, nor any form or expression of wor-
ship, but right doing and Just conduct, be-
cause right and Just.
When England restored to Kamehameha
III the sovereignty of these islands, which
had been temporarily coded as evidence of
his desire to be Just, as well as of his belief
that England would deal justly with him, he
used the memorable words ia man lie ca
ka Anna j Ia Pono"-the life Of the land is to
be right. These words have since been the
motto of this Kingdom, and l know of none
that more ooncisely express the idea.
1t would be too much to say that every act
nf tho of fba TlnIfa1 Sfafa= has
been conceived or executed with due regard
for this principle. Governments are admin
istered by men who are often weak and some
times corrupt. But the moral sense Of the
people OF the United States, as of every
nation, is Of more Importance than the acts
OF any man or set Of men who may for the
time be At the head of its affairs. 1t may
also be confessed that the moral sense Of the
people has not always accompanied the mai
ority OF voices, but it has always existed and
made itself manifest to the confusion and
overthrow of corruption and intrigue. No
government can continue in power that mis-
represents the moral sense of the people.
This is so we'll understood in the United
States that he who would exercise the duties
and receive the honorS of office must
studlonsly regard this sentiment; and so it
has come to pass that generally government
has been the expression of righteousness, of
morality and of Justice For six successive
government of the United States had been
continuously exercised By the adherents Of
the same political party. A cry was raised
that party SO long IN power must from the
inherent frailty of mankind become corrupt;
THAT the public sense demanded that new
party should come IN, examine the books,
compare vouchers, correct abuses and expose
peculatlOns. The sentiment had sufficient
force to turn the balance Of power. What is
the result: After the most careful Inyestlga-
tons, no abuses were found, no frauds dis
covered, no psculatlons exposed. 1t Is not
intended TO intimate that this was because OF
any peculiar or greater honesty of the party
IN power; but because no party IN power
dares defy the indignation that is aroused by
defiance of the underlying and al pervading
sentiment OF honesty, justice and decency
that are part Of the character OF the Amerl-
can people. As an evidence of the estima'
ton placed upon this sentiment may we not
as Americans mention with pride the high
value Of our securities IN the financial mar
kets OF the world? 1t must also be said that
this faith is not IN any political party or
administration, but in the essential honor OF
the people.
The same sentiment, the real source of
American greatness, pervades all its laws and
institutions. 1t has no room or liberation
for distinctions or privileges of birth, unac-
companied By noble qualities. Every pursuit
and every station is open 10 all Noble ideas,
noble aims and noble virtues belong to no
class; they are the gift of Sod forth benefit
OF mankind; and their seed terminates
graudly when dropped IL the child of the
woods, the field or the shop, if left to grow
Uutramnele5 by eccleSiasticisrn, or ideas or
sentiments native TO other lands, Institutions
CT systems. Such spirit Is the workshop Of
individual character, and tends TO develOUe
the grand belief in the divinity of man. not
man the individual, but man as Il whole
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b0mbiis. Each thus becomes d necessary
part Of the whole which part it's his peculiar
care 10 ut and perfect in its appointed place
As among individuals SO is Americas voice
among the nations. Desiring not to deprive
any Of lis patrimony of lands, or wealth. or
good name or advantage Of location or cline
It has no need OF standing armies or steel
ribbed ships to carry menace and fear. It's
flag is the pledge Of kindness and eucour-
agement wherever it floats. That CONNER
cial policy which would subjugate distant
lands in order to find and control market
for tie benefit Of its manufactures and com
merce, has never dEelt N the land of Wash
ingtou- Its policy hitherto has been to
encourage lis own prosperity by feserFiug lis
home narke. first for itself, and then by
kindly Offices TO other nations, TO invite them
TO share the benefits Gifts enterprise, its
activities and its immense resources. As the
result We may now proudly ask, what nation
be Indifferent to its good viii. Those good
OHicea have caused a feeling TO exist in these
Islands that makes them almost as American
as america and that feeling is ct the same
time coupled with the well grounded coavic-
ton that its good offices are genuine mani
festati0ns of national policy under which
the Hawaiian independence and autonomy
can rest as under a protecting aegis.
To the same moral greatness was accorded
the award az Geneva: ana 1t enabled the
nation without loss Of dignity TO submit to
an unjust decision in the matter of the
fisheries indemnity.
Fellow Americans: It Is for you TO say
whether l have, even III 3 manner far beneath
the dignity of the subject and the occasion,
succeeded in indicating the source OF our
country's greatness. If so, then surely We
may have proud hops OF the future. It is
for America to proclaim the approach of that
millennium when war shall be no more; for
her 20 establish that when seeking any just
end, we may firmly believe that sound princi-
pie has more power 10 crown the right and
c0w- che wrong, than blades and bullets;
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